Passwords accepting only 8 characters

I recently discovered that on my server no matter how long is the password you set, you only need only 8 characters to login.
Let's say i have set password for root: 1234567890123456 in order to login either in WHM or SSH you need to enter only 12345678 !!!

I can't find anything to fix this so it will accept longer passwords, can anyone help me?

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I recently discovered that on my server no matter how long is the password you set, you only need only 8 characters to login.
Let's say i have set password for root: 1234567890123456 in order to login either in WHM or SSH you need to enter only 12345678 !!!

I can't find anything to fix this so it will accept longer passwords, can anyone help me?

I have changed the password countless time BUT i did it through WHM to change the root password, now i changed the pwd through ssh and it works fine. I tried again to change the pwd from WHM still only 8 chars needed

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I have changed the password countless time BUT i did it through WHM to change the root password, now i changed the pwd through ssh and it works fine. I tried again to change the pwd from WHM still only 8 chars needed